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“Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.”

Firsts Hard Cutting Habit Stones Adamant

Book:Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon

Source: Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon

“A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.”

Men Years Values Half Cutting Stones Difficulty Fellows Block Finest Sculpture Marble Hacks Carrots Owing Half A Year

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.”

Form Cutting Effects Stones Mere Sculpture Marble

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is medium, in still others it is hard as in lava quarries. There are also numerous other kinds: for instance, in Campania, red and black tufas; in Umbria, Picenum, and Venetia, white tufa which can be cut with a toothed saw like wood.”

Kind Stills Different Hard Found Black White Quality Saws Cutting Red Stones Woods Mediums Instance Lava Quarry Umbria Red And Black

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.”

Men Giving May Lasts Death Lying Speak Voice Cutting Stones Every Man Humankind Last Words Epitaph

Book:Queen Mary. A Drama

Source: Queen Mary. A Drama

“A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.”

Whole Bigs Song Mistake Millions Cutting Stones Filmmaker Rolling Rolling Stones Big Mistake

Author:Rob Zombie

“The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.”

Cutting Stones Fallen Bricks Cedars

Author:Isaiah

“The Stones were always exemplary of one of the best of all rock qualities: tightness. They have always been economical, the opposite of ornamental. Having a very clear idea of what they wanted to say they could go into a studio and make it all up on a three minute cut.”

Ideas Wanted Three Quality Clear Cutting Minutes Rocks Stones Opposites Studios Exemplary

Author:Jon Landau

“Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be prematurely cut off, either gradually or suddenly; that every stone of offence against which we stumble is a stepping-stone to some greater good; that, at the end of days, if we choose to put it so, or, rather, in some sphere beyond the world of space and time, all the rays of progress will be summed and centred in a transcendent focus.”

“Whether there were organized orders of builders in the early times no one can tell, through there may have been. No matter; man mixed thought and worship with his work, and as he cut his altar stones and fitted them together he thought out a faith by which to live.”

Men May Has Beens Matter Together Order Cutting Worship Stones Organized Altars Builder

Book:The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry

Source: The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry

“Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen. For example, Steve McQueen, if you cut the sound, you don't know what he's acting really. He gives to the lines, to the text, something very special, and he's very good. He was a great actor. But, to do a silent movie, you have to have more expressive actors.”

Ifs Knows Way Giving May Actors Sound Lines Acting Cutting Special Example Stones Silent Very Good Expressive Great Actors Mcqueen Silent Movies

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'”

Men Has Beens Said Cutting Feet Integrity Stones Mere Grieving Jewels Deceiver Man Of Integrity Precious Jewels

Book:The Ender Quintet

Source: The Ender Quintet

“Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.”

Long Ideas Cutting Revolution Elements Stones Ancient Temples Technological Columns Colony Industrial Revolution Impetus North Africa

Author:Martin Filler

“And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO”

Should Heart Earth Dies Cutting Battle Ego Glory Stones Sacred Banner Portal Beacons Forts

Book:Anthem

Source: Anthem

“You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't understand how any of you failed to see the blood.”

I Can Ideas Pain Cutting Blood Stones No Idea Bleeding

Author:Erin Hunter

“Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves. Night crossing: black coal of dream that cuts the thread of earthly orbs with the punctuality of a headlong train that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly. Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement, to the grip on life that beats in your breast, with the wings of a submerged swan, So that our dream might reply to the sky's questioning stars with one key, one door closed to shadow.”

“I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories.”

Stills Earth Mother Fall Memories Gone Cutting Mets Ocean Stones Died Lips Guides This Life Streams Cliffs Richness Chairman Mother Died

Author:Arthur Golden

“The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.”

Men Dies Three Waiting Sound Silence Cutting Flower Rivers Stones Thirds Patient Heavy Wide Appropriate Autumn Smooth Wrapping Name Of The Wind

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.”

Doe Cutting Stones Sells Bones Ems Throat Naughty Aprons

Author:Libba Bray

“Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.”

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.”

Poetry Cutting Rocks Genius Stones Cherries Milton Colossus

Author:Samuel Johnson

“When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it as if it's a kind of spell that's going to protect you. I've never seen the logic of it. Cuts and bruises quickly disappear. You forget all about them. The psychological wounds inflicted by bullies with words go much deeper.”

Source: The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story

“Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.”

Pieces Cutting Stones Bigger Glasses Construction Columns Carving Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows

Author:Adrienne Clarkson